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This past week saw the release of the first chapter of the newest iteration of the Ghost in the Shell franchise with Ghost in the Shell: Arise border: 1 Ghost Pain. While the changes in the character designs have caused many to worry, let me assur...

Namco Bandai/CAPCOM/Sega 3DS crossover RPG arrives on Tuesday with 50+ characters Namco Bandai Games streamed a trailer to usher in the Tuesday debut of the Project X Zone crossover strategy role-playing game on Nintendo 3DS in North America: Proj...

GJ-bu's Twitter mentioned a "follow-up" is coming soon, indicating a potential second season, whilst also simultaneously announcing production of a visual fanbook – enabling fans to own a piece of club history.

When Azumanga Daioh ended 11 years ago in 2002, people waited for another manga masterpiece from author Kiyohiko Azuma, and almost a year later in 2003, he did not disappoint. 2003 marked the debut of 'Yotsuba &!

People are noticing the titles of Japanese light novels are getting longer and longer, but this maybe one of the longest. Ore no Nōnai Sentakushi ga, Gakuen Love Come o Zenryoku de Jama Shiteiru, also known as Nokome, will get an anime adaptation ...

Media Factory Unveils New 'Ace Maid' Manga Promo Posted by Chris Beveridge June 25, 2013 at 10:11 AM Ace Maid Dal Young Im and Hae Won Lee have been working on this series called Ace Maid since January and now Media Factory is rolling out a new fu...

Dengeki Maou has revealed the first cast members of Non Non Biyori, a gentle comedy about four girls in a country town that's so small, the school has only five students. The anime Non Non Biyori is based on the manga of the same name by Atto.

Everybody from Kotaku East is asleep right now. So I don't have the benefit of their multilingual skills when it comes to translating this advert for the HD re-master of Sega's first two Yakuza games. The language barrier is no real obstacle here,...

It's going to be a good summer for returning favorites, and high on that list is Rozen Maiden, set to kick off July 1st. Get a look at its second preview below. amoru Hatakeyama (Sankarea) will be directing with veteran Tomomi Mochizuki (di...

Yesterday, Nikkan Sports reported that, Akanishi Jin (28) will restart activity in August this year, with the release of a new single penned by him. It will be 1 year and 5 months since his previous release, Japonicana.

New scans for Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger for the month of July has surfaced online and it features KyoryuViolet and Bakuretsu Kyoryuzin! Doctor Ulshade, portrayed by Shigeru Chiba is KyoryuViolet. Known as the Hero of the Seas, he is the one who inve...

Monogatari's blonde vampire shows herself in Genshiken's second gen PV – the new era of otaku comedy is apparently much more parodical and resembles a loli, an embodiment of the modern otaku mentality.

<p>A second <em>Highschool DxD New</em> commercial is now promoting the summer return of the anime adaptation of &nbsp;<span>Ichiei Ishibumi and Miyama-Zero's light novels about a pervy highschool student revived after being killed by a fallen ang...

SEGA posted a new trailer for the upcoming Nintendo 3DS game Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai 2 today. The video features a Nendoroid version of GUMI and Kagamine Rin. The song used in the video is "Yi Er Fanclub" created by Mikito-P, originally releas...

As with previous Rozen Maiden anime, Ali Project is set to return to perform the opening to this summer's new series. Anime and standard versions of the "Eat My Roses" single are due July 24th. ------- Scott Green is editor and reporter for a...

Thermae Romae With the first film based off of the manga Thermae Romae having landed back in 2012 and bringing in $74 million, it really wasn't a surprise that a sequel would get green lit. That's the case as we now have the first trailer for Ther...

OP Sequence OP: 「GHOST IN THE SHELL ARISE」 by Cornelius 「Border:1 – Ghost Pain」 After waiting for what's seemed like an eternity, Ghost in the Shell is back. Created by a new staff (at least, in terms of position for some) led by Director Kazuchik...

Kamen Teacher Starts Class Soon! From Tooru Fujisawa the man that brought us Great Teacher Onizuka comes a live action version of his other well known work Kamen Teacher! To find out just who this motor cycle masked wearing educator is you're...

Here's the short music video of the Kyoryugers dancing with football (or soccer) players and mascots to promote the upcoming Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger the Movie: Gaburincho of Music movie. As well as a dancing Torin!

Music label Flying Dog has posted the first part of a special in which the cast of Kiniro Mosaic act out a preview of the upcoming anime adaptation of Yui Hara's four-panel comedy manga about the meeting of British and Japanese school girls.

With all of summer's returning favorites, it's easy to overlook some of its original anime series. The bishoujo sci-fi anime series Fantasista Doll is developed by Code Geass director Goro Taniguchi. Heaven's Lost Property and Haganai's Hisashi S...

Welcome to METANORN's Summer Anime Catalogue of 2013! Oh summer, why are you back? ! Didn't I tell you to buzz off last year? But oh well, I have to live with you anyway. So, I'm most excited about a show that is actually a rebroadcast, which I've...

Pony Canyon posted a 30 seconds commercial for the 2013 Summer TV anime Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist on its official YouTube anime channel today. The latest video features the narration voices by Takuya Eguchi as the human protagonist William Tw...

The Littlest Buster of all. What They Say: Naoe Riki was a boy living on the brink of despair. The one to reach out to him was Natsume Kyousuke, a just boy who called himself the leader of the "Little Busters.

1/7 Tharja PVC GoodSmile Company has commenced preorder for this lovely scaled figure of Tharja, the dark mage from the Nintendo 3DS game "Fire Emblem: Awakening". She is posed as if in front of her most admired Avatar, with a sexy gaze and charmi...